Mount Moriah frontwoman H.C. McEntire is a badass for many reasons: Her 2018 solo debut, LIONHEART, is a moving collection of ballads where Biblical imagery collides with pedal steel guitar and her punk ethos. McEntire collaborates with artists like Kathleen Hanna, Tift Merritt, and Angel Olsen. She’s also capable of completely transforming a song as iconic (and macho) as Led Zeppelin’s “Houses of the Holy” into something subtler and more restrained but no less powerful. Released last month to accompany her essay “Witness” in Oxford American magazine, McEntire wrote that she “liked the supplemental context of having a queer feminist (me) as the narrator.” If you can’t catch her tonight, don’t worry—she’ll be back in August to play Pickathon.

by Ciara Dolan